Paradise Violated
"Get up, you shall follow me."
"ButÂ…"
"No I am not going to kill you, perhaps you were not chosen, but I still see use for you."
You immediately take control of the village and order for the search of the Xont structure. Your team gets a much needed break and spends most of its time in the village, now that you have Lizards to do the searching. Your new command consists of Alyssa, LaFleur, Higgins and Kruz who turns out to be very helpful and the most enthusiastic of your followers. Diplomatic missions to other Lizard villages are accomplished while others are conquered. New Lizard troops are trained immediately; soon you have a REAL army. Still, you haven't found the Xont structure, but it hardly matters, you are accomplishing your destiny even without the technology, you just can't wait for the day that you find it, your power will increase tenfold.
Everyone is pretty much behind you, and is enthusiastic about your goal. Only Alyssa seems troubled the entire time. You almost think that she won't become your wife, but she accepts. While you try to always reassure her and make her see the destiny that you see, she never does. She's loyal, but she always has a saddened expression on her face whenever she looks at you. An expression her people almost never show accept in times of great sorrow.
When the Empire ships come, you have many of the Lizard tribes united under your banner. You make contact with the Empire saying that you've made a lot of progress and wait for a shuttle to land, at which point you immediately capture it and take it back to the main ship with your team and a few of your elite Lizard warriors. You catch the Empire off guard for the most part, and capture the main ship without too much trouble, but the battle cruisers that were assigned to it are alerted and begin firing at you. You fight back, but your team isn't experienced with ship to ship combat and your captured ship is vitally damaged. You refuse to run though; you have a destiny to crush the Empire.
But as the ship explodes and your followers die around you, you finally have a moment of clarity:
There was never any way you could fight the Empire. You were just as delusional as Kruz. Alyssa saw this; she was the only one who ever did. You look over at her and she sees that you finally understand.
"Why did you follow me?" you ask.
"Don't you know?" she asks back.
You know the answer.
You squeeze her hand one last time as you both see the bright blinding light of a proton torpedo blast through the bridge.
"ButÂ…"
"No I am not going to kill you, perhaps you were not chosen, but I still see use for you."
You immediately take control of the village and order for the search of the Xont structure. Your team gets a much needed break and spends most of its time in the village, now that you have Lizards to do the searching. Your new command consists of Alyssa, LaFleur, Higgins and Kruz who turns out to be very helpful and the most enthusiastic of your followers. Diplomatic missions to other Lizard villages are accomplished while others are conquered. New Lizard troops are trained immediately; soon you have a REAL army. Still, you haven't found the Xont structure, but it hardly matters, you are accomplishing your destiny even without the technology, you just can't wait for the day that you find it, your power will increase tenfold.
Everyone is pretty much behind you, and is enthusiastic about your goal. Only Alyssa seems troubled the entire time. You almost think that she won't become your wife, but she accepts. While you try to always reassure her and make her see the destiny that you see, she never does. She's loyal, but she always has a saddened expression on her face whenever she looks at you. An expression her people almost never show accept in times of great sorrow.
When the Empire ships come, you have many of the Lizard tribes united under your banner. You make contact with the Empire saying that you've made a lot of progress and wait for a shuttle to land, at which point you immediately capture it and take it back to the main ship with your team and a few of your elite Lizard warriors. You catch the Empire off guard for the most part, and capture the main ship without too much trouble, but the battle cruisers that were assigned to it are alerted and begin firing at you. You fight back, but your team isn't experienced with ship to ship combat and your captured ship is vitally damaged. You refuse to run though; you have a destiny to crush the Empire.
But as the ship explodes and your followers die around you, you finally have a moment of clarity:
There was never any way you could fight the Empire. You were just as delusional as Kruz. Alyssa saw this; she was the only one who ever did. You look over at her and she sees that you finally understand.
"Why did you follow me?" you ask.
"Don't you know?" she asks back.
You know the answer.
You squeeze her hand one last time as you both see the bright blinding light of a proton torpedo blast through the bridge.
